Subject Headings

Leadership (Use with other keywords, e.g. "girls and leadership")
Leadership in women
Mentoring (Use with other keywords, e.g. "women and peer and mentoring")
Women--Education

Search YouTube and Google Scholar

Type in the terms below to search YouTube and Google Scholar for relevant articles and videos.

Women and Power
Women Leaders
Women Leadership

Books

The following sources provide basic information and brief introductions to the topic of women's leadership. Call numbers and locations are listed below the book's description. T Refer to the Ask-A-Librarian, IRIS Guide and Building Map pages for more information. Links to online sources are provided.

Baumgardner, Jennifer. Manifesta : young women, feminism, and the future.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
DOUGLASS STACKS HQ1421.B38 2000

Chin, Jean Lau, et al; eds. Women and Leadership: Transforming Visions and Diverse Voices.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
DOUGLASS, ROBESON STACKS HQ1111.W72 2007

Freeman, Sue J.M.; Bourque, Susan C. and Shelton, Christine M., eds. Women on Power: Leadership Redefined.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001.
DOUGLASS STACKS HQ1233.W597 2001

Hartman, Mary S., ed. Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
DOUGLASS STACKS HQ1233.T35 1999
Mary S. Hartman is University Professor and Director of the Institute for Women's Leadership. This book of interviews came from the Institute's "Talking Leadership" project.

Kellerman, Barbara & Rhode, Deborah L. , eds. Women and Leadership : The State of Play and Strategies for Change.
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint, 2007
DOUGLASS STACKS HQ1233.W5846 2007

Parker, Patricia S. Race, gender, and Leadership : Re-envisioning Organizational Leadership from the Perspectives of African American Women Executives.
Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2005.
DOUGLASS STACKS HD6054.4.U6P37 2005

Rhode, Deborah L. , ed. The difference "difference" makes: Women and leadership.
Stanford, California: Stanford Law and Politics, 2003.
DOUGLASS STACKS HQ1237.5.U6D54 2003

Trigg, Mary K. "Educating Women Leaders for the Twenty-First Century." Liberal Education 92.1 (2006): 22-27.
AVAILABLE ONLINE
"Mary K. Trigg is Director of Leadership Programs and Research at [Rutgers'] Institute for Women's Leadership."

Journals

The journals below may contain relevant articles on your chosen topic. To locate the online versions of these journals, search for the title in IRIS and select "Periodical title begins with" from the dropdown menu. The results page will include a link to the electronic version.

Advancing Women in Leadership
Free online journal, sponsored by the Advancing Women in Careers and Business organization.

Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]
Publishes feature articles in all areas of women's studies, especially those that show the diversity of women in race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation.

Gender and Society [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]

Leadership Quarterly [Rutgers Restricted, Online Resource]

Indexes

Journal articles from a variety of periodical sources can be found via these specialized and multidisciplinary indexes. Students can use their Net ID and password to log into Rutgers Restricted databases from off-campus. See the "How Do I Connect From Home?" guide for more information.

Contemporary Women's Issues
The Contemporary Women's Issues database provides full-text access to global information on women in over 190 countries, bringing together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press.

WILD: Women in Leadership Database
The Women in Leadership Database (WILD), is a portal to unique scholarly resources about women's leadership found in selective archival and manuscript collections at Rutgers University. We encourage scholars, students, teachers, and the interested public to investigate, through the study of primary sources, the many forms and roles women's leadership can take; leadership strategies developed by women; and arenas in which women participate as leaders.

Websites and Blogs

Alice Paul Institute

Bitch Magazine
Includes blogs and forums

Bust Magazine
Includes blogs and forums

Center for Women's Global Leadership (Rutgers)

Institute for Women's Leadership (Rutgers)

New Jersey Governor's Conference for Women

Women in Leadership Blog (University of Cape Town)

Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership